McG to direct ‘Dead Spy Running’

Warner Bros has a new spy movie on the way and will be directed by McG. The movie is ‘Dead Spy Running’ and will be adapted by screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (Havoc) from the espionage novel from author Jon Stock.

…the film is meant to be the first in a trilogy and aims to reinvent the spy genre by telling the origin story of a newly trained spy in a tone that mixes the grittiness of “The Bourne Identity” with the wittiness of John Le Carre’s oeuvre. — HR

The book itself isn’t set to be published until June. From what I’ve read about the story, it seems like the movie will be part Jason Bourne and part James Bond, but that’s just my initial impression.

[source: Hollywood Reporter]